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Very rare and with a particularly elegant portrait
Lot 1387
Tranquillina, Augusta, 241-244.
Antoninianus (Silver, 22 mm, 4.66 g, 12 h), Rome, 241. SABINIA TRANQVILLINA AVG Diademed and draped bust of Tranquillina set to right on crescent.
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CONCORDIA AVGG Gordian III, on the left, laureate and togate, standing right, holding roll in his left hand and clasping his right hand with Tranquillina, on the right, draped, diademed and veiled, standing left, holding her left hand at side. Cohen 4. Michaux 793. RIC 250. Very rare. A lovely, well centered example with a particularly elegant portrait. Extremely fine.
From the collection of Dipl.-Ing. Adrian Lang, ex Münzen & Medaillen GmbH 37, 23 November 2012, 238 and Lanz 92, 4 June 1999, 1019.
Tranquillina was the daughter of Gaius Julius Timesitheus, an eques who had a successful career under the Severans and Maximinus before he finally became the Praetorian Prefect of the juvenile Gordian III in 241. As the de facto-ruler of the empire, he had his daughter married to the emperor and acted as the protector of the imperial couple. Timesitheus appears to have been an effective administrator and general, but he eventually died under suspicious circumstances after defeating a Sasanian army in 243. His successor was Marcus Julius Philippus, who assumed the throne a few months later after Gordian III had also conveniently died afield. Whatever the role of Philip in these suspicious events, Tranquillina herself consequently disappeared from all sources without a trace.
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5000 CHF
Starting price:
4000 CHF
Hammer price:
14000 CHF
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Web Auction 18 Part I, lots 249-1704, will be postponed to Sunday, 19 December 2021, 12:04 pm CET due to overloading of the website. Parts II (lots 1705-3322) and III (lots 3323-5000) will take place on Monday, 20 December, and Tuesday, 21 December 2021, starting at 10 am CET. We apologize for the problems.
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